Talk:Lars Onsager

Ising model
Perhaps the article should refer to his solution of the two dimensional Ising model. I believe that this solution was his most famous contribution to science.

Agreed, though the Onsager reciprocity relations are also quite famous. In addition I'm curious to know what his Yale dissertation was about. The statment that it took the mathematics department to comprehend it is quite intriguing.

His dissertation is readily available from the Yale library. I have inserted the title in to the article. -- Grady

Retirement year
In the "Brown University"-section it says: "[...] retiring in 1972". But in the "After Yale"-section it says "Onsager was retired [...] in 1973". Which year is true? --RLW-E (talk) 13:02, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 09:58, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Laurentius or Lars
There is a minor edit war going on between Xxanthippe and various robots on the link to Laurentius Onsager. Xxanthippe: If you are serious about this, you need to edit the title of the target, not the link itself. The robots will just keep undoing your work. Better yet, discuss it on the discussion page of the target first. Hanche (talk) 20:36, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Quite right. I have added this comment to the Latin version: The title of this article is inappropriate. Laurentius is not Latin for Lars which suffices on its own. Have you not heard of Lars Porsena, which is on the English Wiki but not on this one? The name of this article should be changed. Xxanthippe (talk) 01:34, 14 November 2009 (UTC).

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Link root Nobelprize
regarding your revert of my edit using the Template:Nobelprize with the comment that a link nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1968/onsager-lecture.html is better

Here you have the Nobel linking nightmare and how I together with the Nobeprize.org has agreed of one way of solving it
 * see T248939 the Nobelprize.org people has themself seen that we have a major problem that they have been moving around all pages and we have link rot in many links to Nobelprize.org...
 * email Oct 7 2018, 1:08 PM to Nobelprize.org
 * tweet oct 20, 2019 to Hans Mehlin CTO/CIO Nobel Prize of Nobel prize IT
 * new Wikidata property P8024 Nobel Laureate API ID
 * new linking model that we now have templates for 8 languages see Wikidata Q91652187 and see comment 23 April 2020
 * task for implementing templates on more languages T251055
 * Jupityr Notebook to keep Wikidata and Nobel API in synch

Question : Do you agree that we have a link rot problem and this is the way forward? - Salgo60 (talk) 22:11, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I see no link rot on this page. The previous link is better because it links to a pdf of the actual lecture. Please do not revert edits until consensus is obtained on talk page under WP:BRD. I see several comments on this matter on your talk page. Xxanthippe (talk) 23:40, 11 October 2020 (UTC).
 * why is a pdf link better if we have agreed with the Nobel people of a linking model? If there is something you dont follow what I have explained above dont hesitated to ask.... we also use it for doing statistics see Jupityr Notebook and the massview tool - Salgo60 (talk) 00:46, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Please do not make further edits of this nature until you have obtained consensus of editors. Xxanthippe (talk) 01:06, 12 October 2020 (UTC).
 * Please answer my questions and why did you revert in the first place without a discussion - Salgo60 (talk) 01:11, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
 * A reason was given, and demanding that people answer questions is considered a form of trolling. I suggest you pause for 24 hours. Xxanthippe (talk) 01:14, 12 October 2020 (UTC).
 * If your argument is that a pdf is more stable then please check this change. As said: both people in Wikipedia and the Nobelprixe people agree that they have moved around all documents/pages ==> Wikipedia get link root, Nobelprize.org has created a new API, we have implemented a Wikidata property , we have this template since April 2020 on en:WIkipedia and its available on 90% of all Nobelprize winners in en:Wikipedia link, and as said we update direct Wikidata when a prizewinner is nominated see Jupyter Notebook, the template is implemented on
 * ar:Wikipedia
 * ca:Wikipedia
 * en:Wikipedia
 * ka:Wikipedia
 * nn:Wikipedia
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 * Please explain what you dont follow and how we should do so you see the problem and understand the suggested solution or someone else - Salgo60 (talk) 02:07, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

Source?
What is the source for this: "At Yale, an embarrassing situation occurred: he had been hired as a postdoctoral fellow, but it was discovered that he had never received a Ph.D. While he had submitted an outline of his work in reciprocal relations to the Norwegian Institute of Technology, they had decided it was too incomplete to qualify as a doctoral dissertation. He was told that he could submit one of his published papers to the Yale faculty as a dissertation, but insisted on doing a new research project instead. His dissertation laid the mathematical background for his interpretation of deviations from Ohm’s law in weak electrolytes. It dealt with the solutions of the Mathieu equation of period 4 pi and certain related functions and was beyond the comprehension of the chemistry and physics faculty." It's not currently indicated; I note it's been marked "citation needed" previously, and reverted with "see sources" (which one[s]?), and my own addition of same was similarly reverted. It seems a direct citation, particularly for the element indicating Onsager's work to have been vastly beyond the comprehension of "the chemistry and physics faculty", would be justified. A visitor to the article shouldn't have to spend time trawling through all the cited sources hoping to find the answer/ if the statement is supported. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.109.198.188 (talk) 22:47, 4 January 2022 (UTC)